Business Intelligence is finally within reach for mid-sized companies. For decades the pricing, the projects, and the expertise were designed for large enterprises. That has changed, and faster than most leaders realize. Feliks and Nikolai Golenko explain what has changed in reporting and analytics, and how to take advantage of it.
Drawing on 35 years in BI, Feliks walks through the three groups of mid-sized companies: the 50 to 60% who never saw what Business Intelligence could do for a company their size, the 30 to 40% who knew the value but found the cost of BI tools and implementation out of reach, and the 10% who tried early and are due a better second run. Whichever group you recognize yourself in, the barriers that created it are coming down.
You will hear the story of a €150M manufacturer that turned five years of ordinary machine data into over €1M in annual savings with a single schedule change. The change only became possible when proper reporting surfaced a signal nobody had seen. You will also get the two concepts worth knowing before any reporting project: the implementation gap, which explains where traditional BI budgets went, and the human hurdle: the three points between a report and a result where value slips away. Knowing both is how you avoid them.
And the reason the timing matters: AI entered the game. Like the leap from a two-week steamship crossing to an eight-hour Boeing 707 flight, AI in business reporting has collapsed the economics, and the pace is increasing weekly. So what is Business Intelligence worth to your company now? The starting point is not technology. It is one decision you take regularly, and what you would need to see to make it with full confidence.
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